SPAA Fringe speakers announced
This year’s line-up for SPAA Fringe will include LA-based Cora Olsen (Present Pictures), distribution specialist and Fringe patron Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting), Victoria Treole (Blue Cat Pictures), Gil Scrine (Gil Scrine Films), Michael Favelle (Odin’s Eye Entertainment), Hungry Beast’s Elmo Keep and the team behind Blame, David Lightfoot, Ryan Hodgson and Melissa Kelly.
SPAA Fringe will be held at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, on October 22-23.
- Cora Olson, founding partner and producer at Present Pictures (the self-distributed feature film Good Dick, which premiered at Sundance in 2008). Olson will show clips from her new film, The Perfect Family directed by Australian Anne Renton and starring Emily Deschanel (Bones) and Kathleen Turner (Californication). Her presentation will also cover what made Good Dick such a success – from her ‘What Does Good Dick Mean To You’ campaign, to the intensive social networking strategy.
- Peter Broderick will join the conference again, presenting sessions designed to help filmmakers turn their ideas into financially viable productions. Across a series of sessions and workshops, he will help delegates create customised distribution strategies; identify how to maximise revenue from multiple distribution avenues and present ideas to help filmmakers build a fan base to support their current and future work.
- Victoria Treole of Blue Cat Pictures will convene the role-play inspired panel discussion PLAYING SALES. The session has been designed to help filmmakers structure their pitch smartly, and realistically represent their projects to the market. Joined by local distributor Gil Scrine (Gil Scrine Films) and sales agent Michael Favelle (Odin’s Eye Entertainment), they will role-play a number of hypothetical projects to demonstrate the difference between a good, bad and ugly – or ineffective – pitch.
- The SIDEWALK session will see the team behind the feature Blame, including executive producer David Lightfoot, (Producer Wolf Creek, Rogue and Coffin Rock) and producers Ryan Hodgson and Melissa Kelly, talk about the importance of mentoring and building relationships between executive producers and producers in the film industry. Drawing upon their experience and own personal career pathways, they will reveal how mentoring and relationships culminated in the realisation of Blame.
- Elmo Keep is a writer whose work has been published in titles including Rolling Stone and who has most recently completed work on the second series of Andrew Denton’s Zapruder’s Other Films culture news/satire hybrid show, Hungry Beast for ABC TV. Her transmedia skills have also seen her work across online content development for Zapruder’s Other Films, as well as Events NSW, World’s Funniest Island Comedy Festival and Chugg Entertainment. Highlighting that there is no magic key to producing a viral video and how the internet reflects the strength of an idea, Keep will screen a selection of internet highlights from 2010 during her session, REFRESH THIS PAGE.
More information at http://fringe.spaa.org.au/
